. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 13.

Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2012 May 29;224(2):263–276. doi: 10.1007/s00213-012-2749-2

Table 1.

Maternal and non-maternal behaviors of postpartum rats after BSTv infusion of vehicle or yohimbine. Groups with different superscript letters are statistically different from one another (post-hoc p ≤.017).

		Yohimbine
	0 μg (n = 6)	2 μg (n = 7)	6 μg (n = 6)	F (2,16)	p
Latency (s)
Contact pups	1 ± 0	5 ± 2	9 ± 4	2.44	0.119
Retrieve first pup^*	8 ± 2^a	344 ± 121^ab	442 ± 105^b	5.34	0.017
Hover over pups after all in nest	23 ± 8^a	35 ± 9^a	837 ± 356^b	5.62	0.014
Nurse pups after all in nest	536 ± 138	706 ± 247	1187 ± 308	1.84	0.191
Duration (s)
Lick pups	260 ± 145	123 ± 68	116 ± 87	0.61	0.555
Nest/burrow	7 ± 5	4 ± 2	20 ± 10	1.83	0.193
Self-grooming	191 ± 39^a	364 ± 58^ab	453 ± 58^b	5.94	0.012
Explore cage	227 ± 128^a	272 ± 62^a	714 ± 156^b	5.16	0.019
Hover over pups	649 ± 155	563 ± 156	189 ± 64	3.11	0.072
Nursing	1486 ± 190	1207 ± 242	887 ± 265	1.53	0.247
Total time spent with pups	2135 ± 206	1770 ± 345	1076 ± 289	3.17	0.069
% Time nursing after pups in nest	59 ± 9	50 ± 10	42 ± 13	0.57	0.577
Litter Weight Gain (g)	2.97 ± 0.35^a	1.54 ± 0.42^b	0.83 ± 0.27^b	8.55	0.003

non-responders assigned latency of 600 sec.